Improvement in chain-pump buckets



w. :e. WILcox.

CHAIN PUMP-BUCKET.

Patented Feb. 22., 187 6;

N. PETERS. PHOTO LITNOGRAPH UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

WILLIAM B. WILOOX, OF YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENTdN CHAIN-PUMR BuckETs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. {74,046, dated February 22, 1876; application filed January 21, 1876.

ence marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to buckets for chainpumps; and it consists in providing the same with a solid link and snap-spring, to obviate the necessity of opening the links of the chain and the liability of breakage, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of a chain-pump bucket embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of.the same.

A represents a solid cylindrical body of 7 suitable dimensions, formed at each end with a hook or open link, B, as shown. At one end of the body A is a circumferential flange, a, against which the rubber G is held by means of the nut D, screwed upon the lower end of the body A.

The rubber C may be made in any of the known andusual ways for chain-pump buck- Vets, and is distended, as required, by screwing up the nut D. i V

In each end of the body A is made a suitable hole for the reception of a spiral spring, b, and a pin or bolt, d, therein, which [latter is pressed outward by the. spring against the end of the hook or open link B, thus forming,

.. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM B. WILOOX.

.Witnesses J. WILLARD BABBITT,

Framers P. BOG-ARDUS. 

